The 2023 Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) Legislative Internship Programme \u00a0commenced with an induction ceremony on October 4 and 5 in Abuja, with support from the European Union in Nigeria. In the course of the 10-week programme, forty-one (41) young persons between the ages of 21 and 35 who emerged successful from a rigorous and highly competitive recruitment exercise, will gain in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience of legislative processes at the National Assembly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the induction ceremony, Clement Nwankwo, Executive Director of PLAC\ndelivered the welcome remarks while Laolu Olawumi, Programme Manager, Democracy\nand Rule of Law, European Union in Nigeria delivered goodwill remarks. The Clerk\nof the National Assembly was represented by the Acting Secretary of the\nNational Assembly Human Rights Directorate, Birma Shuaibu Maina delivered the keynote address at the event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the two-day induction, several speakers made presentations to the\ninterns on a variety of subjects. Some of these presentations include \u2018The\nPractice and Politics of Law Making\u2019 by a former Member of the House of\nRepresentatives, Riwa Shawulu; \u2018Understanding National Assembly Plenary\nSessions and Committee Hearings<\/em>\u2019 by Deputy Clerk of the Senate, Ilobah\nIsabella; \u2018From Passion to Action: The Role of Young People as Changemakers<\/em>\u2019 by former\nCo-ordinator of the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, Agianpe Onyema; \u2018Understanding the National Assembly Work Environment: A practical guide\nfor <\/em>C<\/em>urrent <\/em>I<\/em>nterns by <\/em>P<\/em>ast <\/em>I<\/em>nterns<\/em>\u2019, among others. \n\nOn Friday, October 6,\nthe newly inducted interns went on a familiarisation tour of the National\nAssembly complex, where they will be working with Committees and Departments in\nthe coming weeks.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2023 Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) Legislative Internship Programme \u00a0commenced with an induction ceremony on October 4 and 5 in Abuja, with support from the European Union in Nigeria. In the course of the 10-week programme, forty-one (41) young persons between the ages of 21 and 35 who emerged successful from a rigorous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3425,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions\/3425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}